This is just a list of some of the greatest books ever. They are at this place in the layers of stuff accumulating in my brain that’s linked to an age where I was thinking about so many things for the very first time. Or, if I read them later, they’re linked to the piece […]

marjorie wore the tired drawl,
and drunken sexiness,
and harsh quick wit,
that she’d found could draw her to the center of laughing men
and, usually,
keep her safe from them
until the mornings stretched long
and the feeling of missing something
took up too much space in the room
and all the customary jeans and gestures
didn’t fit.
And with the sad shock of having […]